Shane McCrae

Shane McCrae is the author of several books of poetry, including In the Language of My Captor , which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the William Carlos Williams Award; Sometimes I Never Suffered , shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize; and his most recent collection, The Many Hundreds of the Scent . McCrae is the recipient of a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Guggenheim...See more

Shane McCrae is the author of several books of poetry, including In the Language of My Captor , which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the William Carlos Williams Award; Sometimes I Never Suffered , shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize; and his most recent collection, The Many Hundreds of the Scent . McCrae is the recipient of a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City. See less